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What are the differences between AzureWatch and CloudMonix?

Modified on: Thu, 22 Dec, 2016 at 11:48 AM

AzureWatch was originally developed in 2010 as a tool to provide auto-scaling support to Windows Azure, which was just coming out of beta. Over the years, we adjusted and adopted AzureWatch to meet demands of our customers. Many needs were addressed with great success, but some turned out to be more difficult to satisfy.

In summer 2014, the queue of requests for features within AzureWatch was full of issues that were simply impossible to implement within AzureWatch architecture. Therefore we decided to re-architect and re-brand AzureWatch as a new cloud monitoring and automation platform.

Going forward, all the new features will be added to CloudMonix platform. AzureWatch is expected to be retired in April of 2017.

Here is a side-by-side comparison table of existing features support by both products as of January 1st, 2017. For details as to specific features of the product please refer to “CloudMonix vs Azure Portal” article.

Product Features

CloudMonix

AzureWatch

Data Affinity

Yes

Supports storing customer data in three regions, can be expanded into others

No

Multiple Dashboards

Yes

No

Historical Dashboards

Yes

View full dashboard "as of", up to 1 year ago

No

Performance Reports

Yes

Yes

Uptime Reports

Yes

No

Utilization Reports

Yes

No

Alert and Action Reports

Yes

No

Large Accounts

Yes

Yes, with workarounds

Requires splitting of large accounts into smaller ones in order to handle monitoring correctly

Manage User's Customers

Yes

Manage settings and monitoring for different customers separately while taking advantage of unified logins and volume pricing

Little

Multi User Support

Yes

With role-based permissions

Yes

No role-based permission

SSO

Yes

Active Directory/LDAP

ADFS

PingFederate

SAMLP Identity Provider

Sharepoint

Google Apps

Office 365

Windows Azure AD

No

API support

Yes

No

Cost

Starting

at $15/mo

per unit

Offers two distinct plans that target users who need automation vs. those who do not. Has volume discounts